Sweden to Boost Insurance Checks on Foreign Ships as Worries About Russia Rise June 2, 2025 Sweden said Saturday it will step up insurance checks on foreign ships in a move aimed at tightening controls on...
Poland Says Key Infrastructure at Risk After Baltic Sea Incident May 23, 2025 By Piotr Bujnicki Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Thursday that the Baltic Sea is becoming “a new area of confrontation” with...
Kremlin Vows to Defend Its Ships in the Baltic by All Legal Ways May 22, 2025 By Bloomberg News Russia will defend its vessels in the Baltic Sea by all legal means, the Kremlin said, days after briefly deploying...
Estonia Says Russia Sent Jet After Attempt to Stop Sanction-Breaking Ship May 16, 2025 By Andrius Sytas and Sabine Siebold Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during...
Oil Tankers Rocked by Mystery Blasts After Trips to Russia February 20, 2025 By Alex Longley At least four oil tankers have been hit with explosions so far this year — all of them having visited...
Russian Commodities Aren’t Safe in Red Sea as Houthis Attack July 26, 2024 By Alex Longley, Eleanor Thornber and Áine Quinn Yemen’s Houthi militants have attacked more merchant ships hauling Russian commodities than products from anywhere else in the world, highlighting...
Russian Tactics Make Secret Tanker Oil Switching Harder to Trace July 17, 2024 By Julian Lee Two near-identical oil tankers trying to beat western sanctions. A secret transfer of Russian crude halfway between Iran and Oman....
Russia’s Oil Is Finally Getting Snarled by Sanctions March 25, 2024 By Rakesh Sharma, Grant Smith and Julian Lee The Russian oil-export machine funding the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is finally getting some grit in its gears. Indian oil...
Denmark Detains Shadow Fleet Oil Tanker After Ship Collision March 22, 2024 By Alex Longley Danish maritime authorities have detained a tanker that was due to carry Russian oil after it collided with another ship...
Shadow-Fleet Oil Tanker Damaged in Collision Near Denmark March 20, 2024 By Alex Longley and Sherry Su A tanker from the shadow fleet of ships assembled to carry Russian oil was involved in a collision near Denmark,...